#cakes that look like objects

[chipmunkweirdo]

Special thanks to @ambientskai for this meme to tie into my latest mini story!

[s1lv3rp4w3dc4t]

shout out object shows with canon queer ships. I'm talking on screen kiss or even just verbal confirmation. all things considered it's a bit strange you don't really see them that much when you think about how gay everyone here is. I love you ii but c2bc did what you didn't and I think that's actually really nice.

[r0semultiverse]

well, this all looks rather familiar...

[crowrrupt]

Happy birthday to everyone's favourite captain!

[sysig]

Sit literally anywhere else, why are you choosing to suffer (Patreon)

[glimmette]

First horsey thing in a while.

[rolandkaros]

caved.

[frogshipping]

I used @deathdetermineslife's selfship in pngs template for Spars and Stars (my main selfship, Viti×Goku). I think it turned out nice, even tho the image quality went to shit after saving. Also I purposely kept the full image in tact for some of the PNGs cause it just looked better imo (like the full kitchen in the dream furniture section, for example)

Click the image and zoom in to see details better. Here's a link to the og post where you can find the blank template

[ghcstcd]

I understand the people who DC in DBD when they find out the killer is the Clown, now. That's going to be me with the horrible fucking thing that's joined the franchise now.

[heyitsburtburt]

Would you believe me if I said these were cakes?

I want to eat one right now but they’re all the way in Osaka (Masahiko Ozumi Paris). The last one is probably green tea and it looks so good!

I think I'll take the strawberry one.

Though that also looks like a LOT of sugar and... I don't need to eat too much of that...

[stillfruit]

the most difficult part about group projects is not doing everything yourself

[cufeilidh]

Oh how I'd love to watch a nature documentary with Stede Insane Foliage Candied Melon Silk Moth Bonnet

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[ohkate]

At what point do you get when you finally stop having this weird amnesia and remember not to try making the food you find on pinterest because it's always bad. Bad bad.

'Prep time: 20 minutes" Fucking lies.

Look at this highly edited picture that looks delicious.... Fucking LIES.

"It's so easy..." Liar liar pants on fucking fire.

And without fail I forget after a while and I troll my way back to Pinterest and think, "Hmm those lemon cream cheese bars look amazing. And it only takes 15 minutes to make. Let me go buy the 30 dollars worth of ingredients I need and put aside 3 hours of my life to eat one and be disappointed."

[darlingofdots]

the vast majority of fanworks are bad, and that's fine, actually. they are bad for the same reason that the average number of legs for a human person to have is less than two: statistics. like with all endeavours and especially creative ones, most people who write fanfiction or draw art of their favourite characters are bad at it. if you line up all the crochet projects in the world, most of them will be, well, bad. some are bad because they're the first thing a person ever made, or the second or third or tenth, and this kind of thing takes practice. others are bad because the person who made them is just not very good at it. maybe they just learned how to make granny squares and they're perfectly happy to never expand or improve on that. most people who dance or bake or garden or braid hair are not amazing at it! and you'd never go to your kid's dance recital or eat your friend's homemade carrot cake and expect the same experience as you'd have at a professional ballet performance or award-winning bakery. And that's if we assume there is an objective measure of Good Art, which there isn't! Some art is just "bad" because you don't like it!

I think though that specifically with fanfiction, we sometimes forget that when we read a book or watch a movie, dozens of people have looked at it and given feedback and made changes and done quality control before the final product reaches our shelves or screens, and that's not counting the original writer's learning process and past experience. A published book is not anyone's first crochet project, even if it is their debut novel. But with fanfiction, the barrier to entry is so low (on purpose! this is a good thing!) that we do get to see a lot of wonky granny squares, and on sites like AO3 they're sitting on the same shelf as the hand-made silk lace wedding dress and you can't always tell just by looking at it which is which. The consequence of this is that we encounter fic that we think is unpolished, has bad punctuation, is out of character, and we are tempted to think "well, this is awful! how dare this person put this wonky granny square on the same shelf as the lace wedding dress!" But that's not how fandom is supposed to work! That wonky granny square is somebody who is really excited about this TV show they just watched and they are reaching out into the void to share their excitement with you. To scoff at them for not making a lace wedding dress is really, really rude. Even if they did make a lace wedding dress, maybe it's just really not your style, or you think they should have used a different pattern, and it's still their wedding dress. You don't have to wear the dress and you don't have to read the fic.

We all know that there is some fanfic out there that is incredible. I think it's important to talk about that! But the vast majority of people who post their writing online are just sharing their little hobby projects that they make for fun and I also think it's important to remember that.

[yourockthebeatofmyheart]

I'm so happy to be living in an age of wholesome competition shows where the contestants aren't all made out to look like they hate each other